Jessica, come off the ledge! Ignore the crazy talkers!

Vaccinations are just so simple, if you ask me. Do I want my kid to get polio? NO. And chicken pox may not kill you, but if you can avoid the itching and scarring and general ICK, why wouldn't you?

Don't explodiate the idiots, Jess. It won't make them any smarter, and we don't want you in jail. (That said, I second your ARGH)

Yeah, Jessica, I don't get that one either. Step away from the crazy.

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Vaccinations are just so simple, if you ask me. Do I want my kid to get polio? NO.

EXACTLY.

Part of the problem is that the current generation of parents is extremely lucky to have grown up in a post-vaccination era where most of us have no firsthand experience with polio/measles/mumps/etc. And because of herd immunity (which I'm not entirely convinced exists in Brooklyn, based on the posts to this list), they'll never have to, so they can go happily ignorant and unvaccinated and probably be fine anyway. Not that I'm hoping their kids get polio of course, but COME THE FUCK ON.

people who had their tax refund direct deposited are the first to get their stimulus payments issued, and will receive the payment by direct deposit to the same account.

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How many times does the autism myth need to be debunked before these people get it through their thick skulls that VACCINES SAVE FUCKING LIVES??????

The problem is that recent government decision to pay the family of the girl in Georgia who developed autism after getting vaccinated. Her case is exceedingly complicated, but of course the news stories don't really get into that, so it's dumbed way down and ends up being ammunition for the anti-vaccination cartel.

I've never understood it, either. But there are a lot of things I don't understand about how a lot of other people raise their kids.

And chicken pox may not kill you, but if you can avoid the itching and scarring and general ICK, why wouldn't you?

There's a chicken pox vaccine? Cool.

I was on a mailing list with a woman who'd grown up in Africa and knew people who died of measles (well... so she said, anyway. And hundreds of children in Nigeria did die of measles when vaccination rates dropped in the early aughts). So she got pretty angry about no-vaccine talk.

By the way, since I see we're still on food a bit, I went shopping and had two Reuben sandwiches for dinner. And they were wonderful. In fact, after I was done, I sort of regretted not being hungry anymore because the taste was so good.

And my motto for the day: with great printers come great responsibilities. Also great frustration. Grarrrr!

I'm trying so hard NOT to cry right now. I asked for Friday off to work on school. 8 hours in the library.

Boss says he doesn't see how I can take 8 hours off - there's just too much to do.

I covered for COW-orkers stupid ass for more than a week and now? I get no day off. I have the time to take. I need the day. And I'm irritated and it almost negates the awesome letter Boss gave me this morning about what a great job I did on Saturday.

The problem is that recent government decision to pay the family of the girl in Georgia who developed autism after getting vaccinated. Her case is exceedingly complicated, but of course the news stories don't really get into that, so it's dumbed way down and ends up being ammunition for the anti-vaccination cartel.

If it wasn't that, though, it'd be something else. Every study done about childhood vaccines, no matter what the actual subject matter, will be misreported somewhere in a way that the anti-vac crowd can seize on and say "SEE!??? CONSPIRACY!!!"

Great.

"No, yeah...thanks for the spiffy memo in re: my overwhelming goddessnessisity, Boss Guy, but you know what's really a gift that keeps on giving?

TIME!"

Gods, I hate your boss sometimes, Aims.